Ancient Spirit Rising 
Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community

By Pegi Eyers

 If humans are to survive on Earth, we urgently need to reconnect with the earth-friendly
lifeways of our ancestors and become indigenous again to our bioregions.  Especially
for those of us long separated from ancestral homelands and planet-friendly spiritual
guidance, Pegi Eyers’ marvelous new book "Ancient Spirit Rising" is the
practical guide we’ve been waiting for.  
Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, Psychotherapist, Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute,
 Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind

~ NEW BOOK RELEASE ~

Among other important messages, the First Nation Elders, academics, activists and freedom fighters of Turtle Island are coming forth in our time to tell modern spiritual seekers that “we need to return to our own European ancestral traditions and earth-rooted indigenity.” This simple statement has massive ramifications, and exposes years of ingrained white privilege that has led to the cultural appropriation of Native Spirituality on a colossal scale. First Nations have endured genocide,  displace-ment, assimilation and oppression for centuries, and the least we can do as the descendants of the Settler Society (or those more recently arrived to Turtle Island) is to listen deeply to this directive coming from Indian Country and all that it implies.  

We are being asked to examine what our own indigenous knowledge would look like to those of us of European descent who have been displaced from our traditional homelands for centuries, and who have been accustomed to accessing any spiritual belief system we choose.  "Ancient Spirit Rising"  will identify the paradoxical need for critical thinking in spiritual practice, the requirement for an ethical code, and why it is so important to stand tall in our own European ancestral wisdom.  Where and how will those of European descent find re-indigenized roots and a true eco-consciousness in our adopted landscape of Turtle Island?   "Ancient Spirit Rising"  will also examine if the recovery of our ancestral roots in holistic form might be the most revolutionary act in defiance to the nationalism, materialism and capitalism of hegemonic Empire we could ever imagine. 

Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community
available from Stone Circle Press 
and amazon.com  

Also, ASR is available regionally in the Kawarthas at ~
Chapters Peterborough,
Happenstance Books in Lakefield,
Kent Bookstore in Lindsay,
Manticore Books in Orillia,
and Unity Marketplace Cafe in Barrie, ON

"Before" art by Jimson Bowler

I acknowledge that I am living in the traditional territory of the Mississauga Ojibway, stand in solidarity with First Nations land claim processes, support First Nations sovereignty and cultural recovery efforts, and respect the traditional values of the Curve Lake, Hiawatha and Alderville First Nations.  (Pegi Eyers)
website ~  Jimson Bowler

Learn more about
"Nogojiwanong: The Place at the Foot of the Rapids"
by Sustainable Trent here >LINK<

 

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